Dating a banker anonymous

Debunking the 'Dating a Banker Anonymous' Girls

The Times had chronicled the meetings and Web site of this purported support group for girlfriends of Wall Street machers whose dating lives had recently been drained of their liquidity. The story had been an attention-grabbing squealer of a trend piece that left readers' eyes popped with repulsion: Here were the public woes of New York babes in their 20s and 30s whose former high-earning boyfriends had once wined and dined them but now were depressed and moody. These were men, the DABA girls told the Times, who were now having problems getting it up, who could no longer take them to fancy dinners, who threatened to move out of New York, or whose frayed nerves required care and tending ew! From the start, the Times story smacked of a junky romantic comedy script think "Bride Wars" , the kind that bumps along on a string of giddily repugnant stereotypes about femininity and masculinity and that reverberates only with a dim echo of anything you know to be true about men, women and humanity. Even the Times story's headline -- "It's the Economy, Girlfriend! How much of the DABA project was in earnest and how much was satirical or just plain made up remains cloudy, even after the Times' note and the NPR and Newsweek stories about the group. In certain ways, it was always clear that this story was a kind of pantomime, pulsing with the economic and social anxieties that produced it. DABA created characters bursting with the vapidity and excess at which we long to shake a fist or wag a finger. They sold those characters to a paper -- which in turn served them to a salivating blogosphere.

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Finance guys used to be the rich, cocky men that lots of girls wanted to date. But nowadays, banks and hedge funds are having serious troubles, and these guys are stressed out, needy, scared So, two best friends started a blog that supported the wives and girlfriends of bankers. Check this out The blog is called Dating a Banker Anonymous.

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Be The Next 'Dating a Banker' Girl—Nobody Will Know!

As your head hits the pillow tonight, remember this: However bad you may have it thanks to Old Father Recession - unemployment, foreclosure, whatever - your plight is dwarfed by the suffering endured by the ladies of DABA. DABA - which stands for Dating a Banker Anonymous - is a support group formed by women whose boyfriends and husbands, all in the financial industry, have seen their net worth plummet, lifestyle altered, and stress level soar as a result of the Wall Street shakeup. Because it's hardest on the ladies, you see! As the DABA blog states and the Times piece on it quotes , "if your monthly Bergdorf's allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life," attending a "meeting" i. Here, the women share tales from the front, like how one's husband wants to eat dinner at home a lot more now chopping vegetables is not sexy!

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